Scores of farmers associated with the KIC had earlier set up their protest camps on four major inter-city roads in the Sahiwal division, blocking them for traffic all day on Monday.
The KIC leaders were also assured that the farmers arrested by the Vehari police from a demonstration on Sunday would be released from police custody in 48 hours. Sahiwal division commissioner Sohail Shahzad told The Express Tribune that cases registered against them would be cancelled. He said the farmers would be allowed to resume their long march after they assure the administration that it would remain peaceful.
The committee including Minister for Irrigation Mian Yawar Zaman and Advisor to the Chief Minister on Livestock Mian Arshad had arrived in the city from Lahore to meet the protesting farmers.
Scores of farmers associated with the KIC had earlier set up their protest camps on four major inter-city roads in the Sahiwal division, blocking them for traffic all day on Monday.
These were Sahiwal-Multan Road, Lahore-Multan National Highway, Okara-Pakpattan road and Vehari-Khanewal Road.
Train service between several southern districts was affected as some of the protestors parked a mini-bus on the track parallel to the Sahiwal-Multan Road.
On Sunday, more than 50 farmers were arrested from a demonstration in Vehari for damaging two police vehicles and injuring four policemen. An FIR was later registered against them for disrupting public order and several other charges.
The KIC has been holding demonstrations for several days to demand a subsidy on electricity bills and to seek government’s intervention in the release of payments from sugar millers.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 10th, 2015.
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